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Anyone else with children trying to sell their home?
If so, feel free to commiserate. This sucks. My toddler makes it his business to pull out all of the toys we put away and scatter them as widely as possible. The baby wanted to be held all morning while I cleaned up after the toddler. I ended up having to put them in the car while I finished getting the house ready for today's showing. Then, I locked my house keys and car keys in the house. Unbeknownst to me, DH gave the realtor our hidden key for the lock box, so I was stuck in the car inside the garage with 2 crying kids during the showing. And of course the potential buyer had to check out the garage. Awkward. I really hope the house sells fast. We've had 1-2 showings everyday that it's been on the market, so we're exhausted!
Re: Anyone else with children trying to sell their home?
OMG you poor thing. I would have been mortified! BUt I could SO see that happening to me (sitting in the garage and then the buyer opens up... whoops!)
Our house just went "live" on the MLS 10 minutes ago (omg!!! Can I tell you I'm so excited and want to throw up at the same time, lol).
We have three kids. I am scared to death of how this is going to turn out. As it stands, my hair is turning grey as I type this because of the amount of work it takes just to keep the house looking decent. And showings haven't even started yet!!
Fingers crossed your house sells fast. Fingers crossed mine does too! I know for sure I don't want to have to do this again... so the next house we move into is the house I plan on staying in until the kids are grown!!
~L~
Mommy to 2 boys, ages 7 and 5 and a little girl who is 1.5
Have you seen my monkey?
I 100% agree with this! We are not compromising on the next house because it would take the house being completely destroyed for me to move again with children.
And I don't have any pets, but we might have to abscond to Petco next time. We went to the McDonald's PlayPlace after DH arrived with a car key, and it was like the third level of hell. I need a list of safe places to go...
This is great advice, but so far, we've only gotten 2 hours or less notice for each showing. We keep the place generally clean, but we can't really make plans or prepare the night before since we don't know what time the showings will be. Invariably, we get notice in the middle of the toddler's lunch, or right after the baby goes down for a nap. Ugh!
We listed our condo less than a week after we came home from the hospital with our 2nd kid. In February.
99% of our showings were during the day, and I had to get out of a 3rd floor walk up with 2 dogs and 2 kids by myself. It was horrible. Thank goodness for our great realtor, who stayed with the kids while I took the dogs down to the car and came back for the kids, then did the opposite when the showing was over.
We had my DS in a co sleeper and I had to collapse it every time we had a showing. I tried to keep everything as clean as possible all the time so that at the last minute (because there's no point in doing it before that, right? LOL) I could toss toys into a basket and put it in my DD's closet. What worked in my favor was that we had a small space so she couldn't spread out too much. I would die if I had to keep up with the kids in our house.
I'm really sorry about what happened to you today, but I'm also laughing
Hope you can at this point too! It is exhausting but it is all worth it in the end. Sending good house selling vibes your way!
That sucks! I had heard horror stories about last minute requests but the worst we had was like 6 or 7 hours (morning request for a late afternoon showing). Almost all were at least 24 hours.
We were so desperate to get out though that we would have accommodated anything.
ugh. we asked for 24 hour notice..and only one person did that. we got about 1 hour notice usually. we should have just said no, but we wanted to sell fast. the best was when i was at the grocery store and the realtor called, saying someone wanted to see the house. and they were just outside. DH had to wrangle the dogs and kid himself.
Have you seen my monkey?
I am laughing now, but DH felt my wrath earlier about moving that key.
We're hoping for a quick sale, so we're doing what we have to do to accommodate buyers WHENEVER they want to see the house. Maybe we'll do a mini getaway next weekend...
Wow!!
We are looking for tenants to take over our rental house and we NEVER get more than 30 minutes of notice. We don't have kids, but we have a large dog and I'm always frantically hiding his bones/toys and dragging him out to the car with me. I cannot imagine the nightmare if we had kids during showings.
Yesterday I thought we did great picking up everything under 10 minutes until we got home and realized we left the stools on the couch. We keep stools on the couch so our silly dog doesn't get on them whenever we aren't home. I'm sure that made for a great impression!
I so could have written this post!!! I am so tired of it, we are all sick, and it seems like everyone seems to schedule their viewings during naptime. It is really beginning to take a toll on us. It is next to impossible to get them out of the house without destroying the tidiness first.
Yesterday we had 6 viewings so we spent the day at my mom's house. Before we left, DS1 refused to go to the bathroom first. The cross town traffic wasn't as bad as I expected so we arrived home about 10 minutes early. I parked around the corner and let the boys crawl around in the car. Then DS1 started yelling, "I have to go potty!" so I unloaded us all from the car and headed towards the house hoping they had left early. Nope, I could see people still inside while DS was talking about how he was going to pee on the tree in front of the house. So I made him run back around the corner and let him pee on our car/in the gutter. Did I mention this was all happening in the rain?
Soooooo ready for this to be over!!!!